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Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B by willio58 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:53PM (#34084750)
Agreed. If we could force companies to pay for externalized costs we could get to a net-zero earth immediately. Suddenly investments in green energy would increase 1000x
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Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B by m463 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:31PM (#34088230)
(and plunge civilization into a dark age overnight)

Maybe people would stop self destructive habits like cigarettes and alcohol...

(and maybe meat, and keeping pets)

But all current electricity use would be diverted to solar panel and battery factories for a few years.

Only rich people with solar panels could take hot showers... probably then only during sunny days.

(interesting thought experiment)

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Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B by s3p on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:55AM (#34102694)
None of this is directly implicated by the comment above.
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